Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-04
COAST CULLlNGS.
Devoted Principally to Washinetou
Territory and California

A fine new Methodist church il 10
be erected in Oakesdale, w. T.
Albert Volkner fell from an embank.
ment ut Seattle and was fatally IL.
jured.
Washington B,rtlett, CALIFORNIA;
sixteenth governor, died in Oakland a.
paralysis.
A qrarry of photographic stone has
been discovered at East Los Angeles
within the city limits.
A G. A. r post has recently .been
organized at Asotin, I. T. 1t has Ieen
named the ]. J. Lewis post.
A hailstorm in Klickitat county. w
T., killed twenty four. chickens, some
of them full grown, on one ranch.
Two prisoners escaped from the
Walla Walla jlil through stovepipe
hole in the grating of their cell.
James KinkaM, while on his wav
from Seattle to Stanwood, w. r., fell
into the water and was drowned.
John Morgan was found dead in
barn near Stockton, Cal, having com.
mitted suicide by taking laudanum.
The man Roemer, supposed to have
committed suicide at Los Angeles. ia
now believed to have been foully muir
dered.
Fifteen counties in Washington Ter.
ritory are represented by ladies in the
office of County Superintendent of
Schools.
J. II. Sturtevant's hop kiln, with his
full crop of sixty-five acres in the pro-
cess of drying, was burned near Glover
dale, Cal.
VIM. B. Anderson, stove importer,
committed suicide at San Francisco
by shooting himself in the head with
a revolver.
At San Francisco j. r. Paley, a
sailor on the British bark Falstaff, fell
from the main yard into the hold and
broke his neck.
, Ex-United States Senator James G.
, Fair has been elected director and
president OF the Nevada Bank, and
has assumed active management
In quarrel between Jack Brannan
and V. Dodson's family at Gold valley,
Sierra county, Cal, Brannan was shot
twice and young Dodson WAS killed.
Joseph Mcmillan, 81 years OF age,
was cl,,bbed to death in a saloon quar-
rel, by two young roughs named Demp-
/ sey and Mccarthy, at San Francisco.
Charles Darden killed very large
lynx on the farm of ID. G. Eaton, on
3 the Coppei, near Waisburg, w. T.
The animal had, few nights before,
, breakfasted on thirty of Mrs. Hastings
j. geese.
: Joseph Furbush, teamster, was
: killed at San Francisco while driving
i through lumber yard. He fell from
a seat on the wagon and the wheels
\ passed over him, crushing him to
Y death.
e Since January, 1867, to December
e 81, 1886, tifty-six divorces have been
$ granted in Nez Perez county, Idaho,
s and between the same periods 924
marriages have taken place in that
J. county.
v A colony of negroes will settle on
# 1000 acres of land in Shast. county,
: Cal, which has been purchased for
l. that purpose. The colonists will come
j. under the leadership Of a minister
I. named Petty.
Near Laporte, Cal, James Cunning
r, ham and John Golfer engaged in a
y quarrel, and finally an affray, wherein
e the latter stabbed the former with q
fl pocket knife. The injury was fatal,
|. and he died in few minutes.
q A little daughter OF NJ r. Under
d wood, living in Klckitat county, w.
T., was choked to death. The child
e was playing with large iron screw in
u her mouth, which, by some means,
Is became fast in her throat. Death re-
'e suited before the screw could be re-
IL moved.
At San Francisco Mrs. Mary Marse-
= cano, tied her two-yearold boy to a
high-chair, and placed him at table
~ 70 play with some pictures, while she
prepared supper in the kitchen. In
a her absence the little fellow pulled a
j. coal oil lamp on the table towards him.
* 1t broke and exploded, and the blazing
lie oil spread all over the infant, literally
T. burning him to death before her eyes
lie In her attempt to save her son sue
burned her hands and arms severely.
v Captain Viddie Reeves, owner in the
y. Diamond Hitch mine, on Canyon
~ ok, aged about 60 years, was found
~ dead one and half miles blow
y Wardner Junction, in the south FORK
- of the C@ur d'Alene river. The cap.
~ tain had bonded his mine for gooi
!, i sum, and had only consummated the
. deal, and was supposed to have about
90 $4,000 on his person. His body was
~, found by some lads in the river, ana
y suspicion points to foul play. When
10 10 searched only $37 was found upon
~ ~ him.